This month Robert Thompson provided most of the book titles with additions by Cindy Hannikman, Liviu Suciu and Mihir Wanchoo. We are featuring 60 books.This month there were considerably more new sff releases but we tried to limit ourselves to a reasonable number and we chose the books most in tune with what's reviewed here.The release dates are US unless marked otherwise and the books are first edition unless noted differently. The dates are on a best known basis so they are not guaranteed; same about the edition information. Since information sometimes is out of date even in the Amazon/Book Depository links we use for listings, books get delayed or sometimes even released earlier, we would truly appreciate if you would send us an email about any listing with incorrect information.Sometimes a cover image is not available at the time of the post and also sometimes covers change unexpectedly so while we generally use the Amazon one when available and cross check with Google Images, the ultimate bookstore cover may be different.

Then time allowing A Magic of Dawn (plan to get on publication), while The Poisoned Throne, The Hittite, Windward Passage are books I will look at as they become available"

I reviewed most of the above except for Tome that got an un-review, Grand Central Arena (next), Conflicts (not released/received yet) and Orphaned Worlds which may get a mini-review only for time constraints; I also reviewed Magic of Dawn and did a mini-review for The Hittite and I will check Windward Passage as soon as I see a copy, while I disliked The Poisoned Throne thoroughly for reasons explained in my mini-review on Goodreads and will waste no more time talking about it

From the may books the only sure reviews from me are: Migration (read), The Unincorporated War (have, next read), Absorption (pre-order) and the masterpiece that is The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (read and one of my top 2 novels of the year so far alongside The Folding Knife though for May I may review Cloud Atlas which is a top book of the 00's for me and review Thousand Autumns for its US release in June) and most likely I will review Stealing Fire too, while I will try Deceiver and The Prince of Mists too; in rest there are the April books remaining and then I will start on some June books since that month has a ton of great books for me, of which I read quite a few so in the second half of May I will start reviewing those.

I saw the comment here and at the other post and while I hope Cindy looked at the book and can give you her impressions too, I read Lord of the Changing Winds and I put some impressions on Goodreads:

"I liked the writing in this one - tense, emotional and captivating - while the characters, especially the Griffin Mage Kairaithin and Bertaud were very interesting, though Kes was more of a standby, necessary character than I expected and the naming conventions were excellent, but I found the world building very unconvincing - the maps and distances described both there and in the text give the three countries involved small areas and considering the level of development, small populations too so the number of soldiers, the wealth of the countries... were very unconvincing as for the rest of the world, nothing and I just do not buy that 3 small county like countries are isolated like that; so all in all the book almost crashed my suspension of disbelief and I hope the next installments will do considerably better on the world building front; a B from me"

I have much the same problems that Liviu had, I still plan on writing up a review but it wasn't a stand out WOW book for myself. It was an alright book. If I get my hands on the second I'll give it a try but it might not be till June :)

I'll write up a longer review in a week or so. So that will help you a little better!

I appreciate taking the time to answer my question.Actually your comments doesn't discourage me as much as you would thought as I think the plot and characters count alot for me. I think alot of authors struggle with imaginary geography (I wince at implausible geology, being a geologist myself) but it is a fantasy world and sometimes those things do not matter too much unless they are central to the story.

I also tend to give authors wide latitude in world building but in Ms. Neumeier debut there was not quite enough to compensate imho; however for example the Castle novels of Steph Swainston which suffer also from the too little geographical space for the scope of the novels are among my big time favorites because of Jant's voice and of the weirdness of the Shift, while the inventiveness/triple voices of the Wanderers and Islanders series of Steve Cockayne is just amazing in the first two volumes at least, though the last falters a bit, while again the world building is not that convincing if you think a little about it